From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] target/arm/kvm: Retry KVM_CREATE_VM call if it fails EINTR
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:26:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861qry8b57.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220926133644.1345269-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:36:44 -0400,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Occasionally the KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl can return EINTR, even though
> there is no pending signal to be taken. In commit 94ccff13382055
> we added a retry-on-EINTR loop to the KVM_CREATE_VM call in the
> generic KVM code. Adopt the same approach for the use of the
> ioctl in the Arm-specific KVM code (where we use it to create a
> scratch VM for probing for various things).
>
> For more information, see the mailing list thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/8735e0s1zw.wl-maz@kernel.org/
>
> Reported-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
M.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-26 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-26 13:36 [PATCH] target/arm/kvm: Retry KVM_CREATE_VM call if it fails EINTR Peter Maydell
2022-09-26 13:57 ` Eric Auger
2022-09-26 14:26 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2022-09-26 18:08 ` Vitaly Chikunov
2022-09-26 19:07 ` Peter Maydell
2022-09-26 19:44 ` Eric Auger
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